Amphibian Species of the World

Search tool	Example of search string in box	What that means to the database
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	*Hyla	Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla
	Hyla	Will find all records that contain stand-alone uses of Hyla: e.g., Hyla, Hyla arenicolor
Strings of words without quotation marks	Lithobates pipiens	Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens
Strings of word with quotation marks	"Lithobates pipiens"	Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.
AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR	Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"	Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica
Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
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Search tool	Example of search string in box	What that means to the database
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	*Hyla	Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla
Single word	Hyla	Will find all records that contain stand-alone uses of Hyla: e.g., Hyla, Hyla arenicolor
Strings of words without quotation marks	Lithobates pipiens	Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens
Strings of word with quotation marks	"Lithobates pipiens"	Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.
AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR	Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"	Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica
Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
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Search for "Litoria nigropunctata" returned 17 results

Litoria nigropunctata (Meyer, 1875)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Pelodryadinae/Litoria/Litoria-nigropunctata
Litoria biakensis Günther, 2006
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Pelodryadinae/Litoria/Litoria-biakensis
Litoria christianbergmanni Günther, 2008
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Pelodryadinae/Litoria/Litoria-christianbergmanni
Litoria mareku Günther, 2008
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Pelodryadinae/Litoria/Litoria-mareku
Litoria umarensis Günther, 2004
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Pelodryadinae/Litoria/Litoria-umarensis
Litoria verae Günther, 2004
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Pelodryadinae/Litoria/Litoria-verae
Litoria rubrops Kraus and Allison, 2004
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Pelodryadinae/Litoria/Litoria-rubrops
Litoria wapogaensis Richards and Iskandar, 2001
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Pelodryadinae/Litoria/Litoria-wapogaensis
Litoria gracilis Richards, Donnellan, and Oliver, 2023
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Pelodryadinae/Litoria/Litoria-gracilis
Litoria vocivincens Menzies, 1972
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Pelodryadinae/Litoria/Litoria-vocivincens
Litoria majikthise Johnston and Richards, 1994
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Pelodryadinae/Litoria/Litoria-majikthise
Litoria chloronota (Boulenger, 1911)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Pelodryadinae/Litoria/Litoria-chloronota
Litoria mucro Menzies, 1993
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Pelodryadinae/Litoria/Litoria-mucro
Litoria havina Menzies, 1993
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Pelodryadinae/Litoria/Litoria-havina
Litoria ollauro Menzies, 1993
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Pelodryadinae/Litoria/Litoria-ollauro
Litoria pronimia Menzies, 1993
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Pelodryadinae/Litoria/Litoria-pronimia
Litoria iris (Tyler, 1962)
Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Pelodryadinae/Litoria/Litoria-iris